Nearly two months have passed since the Nelson County Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 1 to transfer authority over the Department of Social Services from an advisory board to Nelson Administrator Candy McGarry.
The packet for the Nelson County Board of Supervisors meeting for October 14 has data from September after a corrective action plan was put in place.
There were 18 referrals to the department and 13 of them were validated, or 72 percent. Five were screened out, or 28 percent. Of the validated results, four went forward to the investigation phase and eight were sent to family assessments…